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Tickets on sale now for Detroit City Football Club third season

Photo by JOHN SOBCZAK
The Detroit City Football Club, nicknamed "Le Rouge," averaged 1,800 fans per game last year at Cass Technical High School.

Detroit City FC ticket pricing

Season ticket packages: $40 to $70

Individual tickets: $8 in advance, $10 at the gate (Children 5 and under free)

Group tickets: $5 for groups of 10 or more

To purchase season tickets, individual tickets and group ticket packages, call (313) 265-3630 or go to detcityfc.com/ticket-packages.

With soccer frenzy in southeastern Michigan buzzing over Manchester United playing Real Madrid at the Big House in August, individual tickets to see Detroit City Football Club play its semi-professional soccer games near downtown Detroit this summer now are available for purchase.

Detroit FC, which plays its home games at Cass Technical High School, has already sold nearly double the number of season ticket packages for this season as compared with last season, according to a news release.

In 2013, the team, nicknamed “Le Rouge,” averaged 1,800 fans, finished its second season 12-0 and ranked No. 1 in the National Premier Soccer League before losing in playoffs to the Erie Admirals.

Attendance topped 3,000 for the post-season Great Lakes Conference tournament.

The NPSL is a fourth-tier amateur league within the Chicago-based United States Soccer Federation’s organizational pyramid, which is topped by Major League Soccer and its 19 professional teams.

The federation is the U.S. soccer system’s governing body, for both amateur and pro soccer.

There will be 78 teams in the NPSL for the 2014 season, spread across 13 conferences. Detroit FC switches conferences this year to the Great Lakes West conference in the Midwest region.

In February, the team hired Donovan Powell as its first full-time employee since it began play in 2012.

Detroit City’s annual operating budget is between $100,000 and $200,000. As a semi-pro team, its players are not paid.

The Detroit City team is co-owned by Sean Mann, who founded the semipro Detroit City Futbol League in 2010; David Dwaihy; Ben Steffans; and Todd Kropp.